The Gardner continues to get better and better, and didn’t spike as impressively as many of its neighbors with this past weekend’s storm.

Flows overall remain quite below average; flows this morning on the lower river near Mammoth  at 0330 are 98 cfs, with today’s average 128 cfs.  Flows spiked early on the 6th, and have been dropping pretty rapidly since.

If we were fishing the river today, we’d still be nymphing, and I think that’s what the Park’s Fly Shop guys are pitching now too - they know the water better than anyone else.  A double nymph set up, an smaller (14-18) attractor dry / nymph set up, or even a streamer / nymph set up make sense.

BWOs have been strong again this week; the sun this week might slow that down some - think about swinging small soft hackle emergers before the hatch or during a slow, stuttering hatch.

The lower and mid sections of the river are still probably the places to concentrate your time now, the upper river is pretty skinny as the brookies have dispersed widely to spawn.  There aren’t huge numbers of browns inthe lower river, but more every week.

Terrestrials have slowed quite a bit, but as this tends to be a warmer pocket there have still been a few (that is a few) beetles around.

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Flies to have in the box:

Dries:  baetis - BWO, Blue Dun, Comparadun, Olive Sparkle Dun, Para-adams; your attractor package including Trudes and Wulffs

Nymphs: Copper John, red, blue; Rubberlegs, olive and brown; Hares Ear; San Juan worm, red, brown; BHFBPT; Lightning bug, gold, silver, green /olive;

Terrestials: Beetles- Fire, Foam, HiVis, Sam’s;  Ants - Chernobyl, ParaAnt, black and cinnamon, CDC Flying ant, black, brown, cinnamon; Epoxy, same colors

Streamers / Other: Woolly buggers, olive, brown, black; Girdle bug; Sparkle Buggers, olive, brown, black; smaller sizes; JJs

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